1. Introduction: The Paradox of Excess and Deprivation
4. Reimbursing Health Care Providers
5. How Health Care Is Organized—I: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Care
6. How Health Care Is Organized—II: Health Delivery Systems
7. The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Professionals
8. Painful Versus Painless Cost Control
9. Mechanisms for Controlling Costs
13. Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care
14. Health Care in Four Nations
15. Health Care Reform and National Health Insurance
16. Conflict and Change in America’s Health Care System
17. Conclusion: Tensions and Challenges